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Accidents sometimes turn into fireworks. It was almost without realizing and despite himself, that the artist soon to be known as Elliot Maginot laid down his first fragments of songs on a small and cheap audio recorder.

With little experience in some short-lived garage bands, slaughtering skate-punk tunes in his teenage years, Elliot was far from considering the guitar as the instrument with which to captivate and enchant an audience. He will have to go through what he describes as a “hermit period ” for the instrument to reveal all its potential, and for Elliot to discover his ability to create beautiful melodies.

The few snippets of music, scattered choruses and verses soon became real songs. Elliot Maginot adorned his new tunes with layers of vocals, a mood reminiscent of small cathedral choir. This experimentation led to a home recording of his first EP (2013). The tracks delved into sensitive and dark folk embracing influences from greats like Nick
Drake and Bob Dylan. His first full length album, Young.Old.Everything.In.Between, produced by Jace Lasek (Besnard Lakes, Suuns), promises to orbit even more in the atmospheric areas of dreamy pop, with lyrics infused with painful love, regrets and dualities. The album will be released on February 10th 2015.

The main difference between the young hermit who did not go out much and Elliot Maginot is the songwriter has now discovered the possibility of self reinvention that the musical process allows. Music with which he can now choose who he wants to be, with which he was finally able to escape the daily predicaments that threaten to stifle. Music through which he can paradoxically embody in concealing his real name, the most authentic version of himself. Hence the pseudonyme, Elliot Maginot, chosen without real reason.

Because accidents sometimes turn into fireworks…
YOUNG.OLD.EVERYTHING.IN.BETWEEN available February 10th 2015

Everything will be alright if you just do as I say
You got a heart of gold, don’t ever let it get in the way
I’d take the beating if I could be sure you’d walk out alive
You are the only rule that I am sure to never live by

Take your time and linger on, I beg you do what you can
All I ever wanted all I ever want is to be part of the trend
Here’s a cold dark night, here’s a morning, here’s a bottle
When the saving light will be taken here’s a bottom

Just count me in if you want out
Let me provide the lack of faith
For every pattern in the making
For every humble way to leave

Oh God! Might it be the time to go
Can’t you know a lie, can’t you know a lie
when you see one
Are you still alive, are you still alive my love?

Just count me in if you want out
Let me provide the lack of faith
For every pattern in the making
For every humble way to leave

You might dress up in black and stand where the sun don’t shine,
but like a cat I wear my night vision all the time,
You can hide into a shell and wait for the risin’ tide,
saying, all is well except I’m drowning from inside

How long will you try to be a shooting star?
The lights are off and now it’s time to go.
But it’s not like it’s the first time you
say it’s the last…

You keep on adding on more layers on your back
getting ready for the day you’ll be under attack
But if you wanna know, I think you got it wrong,
And in a while or so, the feeling will be gone.

And how many more years before you change your line,
I cannot afford to get tired of you.
Your days are getting long but trust me, so are mine.
But I can fake it if you want me to…

Some day we’ll wake up and we’ll be old and wise,
and we will talk about the good old days
It might takes some time before you realize,
that being loud is not the only way to live,
that being loud is not the only way…

Queen C got back from a ghost town
and now she won’t even look in my eyes
She says “from now this can only go down”
oh she looks like she ain’t scared to die
She’s looking for something to kill for
She’s looking for something to kill

Queen C is drunk in my bed
she is speaking in tongues with the devil
I can see her just fighting like hell
She says “don’t you get caught in the middle”
“see you’re just like me in a way”
I know I’m just like her in a way

You can keep up forever
try to dig out the truth
you can stay til I’m better
God I hope that you’ll do
you’re best to stay broken
cause I’m still undecided
whether my heart was taken
or was it already dead, from the start

Queen C she won’t even mention
that she’s been betrayed by her friends
She’s addicted to love and redemption
oh she won’t even care for revenge
Cause they all made a deal with the darkness
They all made a deal in the dark

Queen C is afraid of her brother
she says “blood is a gift ‘til it’s not
I will deal with the fact you got stronger
If you deal with the fact I did not
I don’t blame you for trying to save me I don’t blame you but no one can save…”

You can keep up forever
try to dig out the truth
you can stay til I’m better
God I hope that you’ll do
your best to stay broken
cause I’m still undecided
whether my heart was taken
or was it already dead, from the start

Be your own memory
I was made to be forgotten
Calm down what is your hurry?
You’re over thinking again

The season’s changed overnight
you’re panting seeds in the snow
I’m staying out of the light now
I’m staying out of the road again

This is just survival mode

You’re living two lives ahead
and I’m still learning to stand
I’m making war from my bed
and I don’t plan to be taken alive this time
The word is out on the streets
That I came down on you like some raging thunder
I’m staying out of your reach
cause I don’t plan to go under again

This is just survival mode
They will keep on shooting if you don’t stay down
They will smell the blood and come from all around
This is just survival mode
And I don’t plan to be taken alive this time

I’ll be back by the evening with something to stand upon
Tell me what am I missing, tell me what’s going on
they’re getting closer to my door
And I’m afraid if they keep coming I won’t be able to hold on no more

Could you tell me once again
what’s the part of the plan
you couldn’t figure out on your own

I could really use some time
to go out of my mind
and save my inner child while I can

Don’t do as I have done
cause the son of God wasn’t born until he died
You should’ve learned to run
but now you’re stuck here
living someone else’s life

It probably makes no difference at all
but if I have to walk beside these cowards then I swear I’d much rather crawl…

Could you tell me once again
what’s the part of the plan
you couldn’t figure out on your own

I could really use some time
to go out of my mind
And save my inner child while I can

Really, who’s to say you ought to go down?
You took the fight like a blind man.
In a moment you’ll be safe and sound
Then you might understand

I could go on forever more
I could never save your life
I could be fun till you’re bored
I could never save your life